The Latest Breaking News from Mumbai

MUMBAI: Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is at the receiving end for granting quasi-judicial powers, held by cabinet members, to bureaucrats. Leader of opposition Ajit Pawar, Congress legislature party leader Balasaheb Thorat and Congress spokesperson Atul Londhe strongly criticized the chief minister, saying, his decision is anti-democratic.

MUMBAI: Sixty-seven-year-old retired chief secretary D K Sankaran, who took on the MTNL for leaving him with an inflated international roaming bill of Rs 1.69 lakh when he travelled to Thailand for 30 days in 2014, has been awarded a compensation of Rs 1.15 lakh and refund of the bill…

MUMBAI: A sessions court has refused to grant bail to a 24-year-old city businessman, Mohammed Shaikh, whose alleged drunk driving at Mahim on May 29 killed a 23-year-old biker and left his 16-year-old sister with serious injuries.

MUMBAI: Shiv Sena MLA Sunil Raut, brother of party MP Sanjay Raut who was arrested by the ED last Sunday, alleged that BJP leader Mohit Kamboj was also involved in the Patra Chawl scam.

MUMBAI: The NIA on Saturday was granted an extension of 90 days to file chargesheet against two accused in the D gang terror funding case. Arif Abubakar Shaikh alias Arif Bhaijan (59) and his brother Shabbir Abubakar Shaikh (51), were arrested in the case in May.

MUMBAI: Five students from IIT-Bombay started their hunger strike on Saturday to protest the recent fee hike in M-Tech and PhD courses, with a few hundred joining in support. The students were protesting near the school of management building but were asked to move to the gymkhana owing to an…

MUMBAI: Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has issued a notice to the BMC and the district collector asking them to verify and take necessary action in the complaint raised by BJP leader Kirit Somaiya about violation of CRZ norms and destruction of mangroves by film studios that were allowed…

MUMBAI: The Shivaji Nagar police team while patrolling on Thursday noticed a suspicious man moving around with a blue carry bag. After checking the detection staff found 1,300gm ganja worth Rs 52,000.

MUMBAI: A sessions court this week rejected the bail plea of a city-based man who in a bid to steal the mobile phone of a woman in a local train ended up in a scuffle with her in which she died.